Solar_eclipse_of_August_20,_1906

Solar eclipse of August 20, 1906

Solar eclipse of August 20, 1906

20th-century partial solar eclipse

A partial solar eclipse occurred on August 20, 1906[1][2]. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.[3]

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Solar eclipses 1902–1907

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.[4]

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Notes

  1. [1]
    "DIDN'T SEE ANY ECLIPSE OF THE SUN". The Eugene Guard. Eugene, Oregon. 1906-08-20. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-11-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. [2]
    "ECLIPSE DID NOT AFFECT THE RAYS OF OLD SOL IN OMAHA". Omaha World-Herald. Omaha, Nebraska. 1906-08-20. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-11-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. [3]
    "What Is a Solar Eclipse?". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  4. [4]
    van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

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